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  • Wandaring Outback
    122
    Gün 4

    Charleville - Quilpie

    17 Temmuz 2023, Avustralya ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    Up and out of the Warrego Motel in time to grab a real coffee then to The Bilby Show at Charleville Railway Stn/Info Centre. It's all about the efforts of locals saving the Bilby population. Very interesting and informative. Saw real Bilby's.

    After the show, it was off to the Cosmos Centre....all about the Universe, our Galaxy, and all that unknown that surrounds it. Great place to stargaze... when it's not cloudy like today...grrr

    We then checked out the US Airbase Exhibition. This base was a training centre for the most secretive military device, the Norden Bomb Sight device that enabled the Allies to bomb with extreme accuracy. Charleville seem most proud of their ancestors' ability to keep the base hush-hush throughout WWII.

    A quick look at the RFDS Base created by John Flynn before departing West, still on the Warrego Way (according to roadside sign, it's Australia's longest road. Don't really know how that is....what about Highway 1, or Nullabor?)

    Long straight highway to beer stop at Cooladdi....one stop shopping in the middle of nowhere. Starting to see more wildlife (other than dead), wild pigs, goats, emus and wedge-tailed eagle, the pig and eagle were feasting on road kill (different location), unfortunately eagle scurried off quickly, the pig stood it's ground so we stopped beside it to grab a photo but the stench was unbearable so WE scurried off quickly.

    We scored the last available bed at the Quilpie Motor Inn, Quilpie, which is the last railstop on the Queensland western line (had to get a selfie there). It is also the site of pioneer British Aviatrix, Amy Johnson landing at the Aerodrome for supplies on her record-setting solo flight from the UK to Australia in the 1930s.

    Romance is never far away when it comes to Jen & I, so it was off to Bald Top Rock, just out of Quilpie for a beautiful view of the sunset through light cloud and rainfall on the horizon over the mulga covered Plains of the outback...of course we had the obligatory drinks and nibbles on hand to complete the picture....ooooh!    Okumaya devam et

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  • Wandaring Outback
    3
    Gün 3

    Roma - Charleville

    16 Temmuz 2023, Avustralya ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

    Nice warm comfy night at The Overlander Motel, we forgot to book in brekky so set off in search of food. No sooner than we get started we come upon a large park full of scrap metal sculptures which looked interesting so we stopped and browsed. All were part of a show called Sculptures Out Back, prizes given by judges and pride of place forever in the park for Open Show winner. Sculptures were all for sale, and sold, the most expensive was $18,000, the least expensive just $2,000.

    Next stop The Big Rig. This is a park displaying Charleville's oil, gas and water drilling history. A great interactive and static display, fully informative with great facilities. Brekky at the Cafe there before tackling the display. We got to the top of the display tower which imitates the height of The Big Rig drill tower giving us great 360 deg views of the district and walked amongst the treetops beside Bungil Creek. This Creek runs from The Great Divide thru to Roma, a distance of 233km. Tweed River is 80km....

    Before heading west we went shopping for some minor supplies (not alcohol, we have plenty of that still), felt lucky to find anything open, just the cheap shop and they had the essentials in stock. Finally set off sticking to the Warrego Hwy.

    Through Mitchell and Morven towards Charleville. Dodged a lot of road kill, mainly Red Kangaroo, but also Emu and wild Pig. Road Trains in abundance. A roadside stop for snack and cuppa about 35km East of Charleville at the cleanest rest area toilets we've ever seen.

    We hit Charleville about 3.30pm, fuelled up, hunted around for lodgings, more difficult than expected, one place had rooms but they hadn't cleaned them because they couldn't find the keys...yep, don't ask, we just thought it best to get out asap.

    We plan to check out the Bilbys, Distant Education (Radio), the largest classroom in the world, the Planetarium and WWII Camp Museum before continuing on towards Quilpie. But before we do, it's a quiet relaxed drink at our digs, the Warrego Motel before dinner. Cheers    Okumaya devam et

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  • Wandaring Outback
    Gün 2

    Toowoomba - Roma

    15 Temmuz 2023, Avustralya ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    Lovely night sleep, Jasper sneaking in early to snuggle up against Grandma and catching a few more hours before we all got up for lively morning coffee and quality time chatting and playing soccer with the Bula-Ball Time passed too quickly, and we suddenly realised we needed to head off.

    First stop, town, for 'comfort essentials' (alcohol....oh, and fuel), watched some dude checking car doors so Brett stood guard on the truck whilst Jen sourced goodies. Headed West took a while to get out of town, Toowoomba must be the indigenous translation for 'place of slow changing traffic lights'

    Very good road heading west through the Western Downs region. Passed through Oakey, then on to Dalby, the gateway to many different local attractions such as Bunya Mountains, Tara, etc, but alas, we were on a mission (behind time just a little). So, it was off to Chinchilla via Archers Crossing (at least we think it was) on the Condamine River for our first roadside cuppa. Real excitement, the Butane cannister caught alight creating a Granny-jig type dance and scramble to shut down the inferno...cause - really old and rusted out butane cannister. A quick replacement with an up-to-date model ensured a safe completion of the cuppa making task.

    Back on the road, into Chinchilla, where we were fortunate to get the obligatory tourist photos, in front of the Big Watermelon (they have watermelon festivals here) and a chance 'royal' photo.

    Next target Miles for stop-over. Whoops! Booked out - apparently, some big local Rugby match booked out all accommodation in town. Too late in the day to test our proficiency in setting up camp, bee-lined it to Roma whereby just west of Wallumbilla we entered Maranoa Country, the official start of Outback Queensland. After a further nervous half-hour drive in dusk and night conditions, no live wildlife encountered. However, we counted 9 dead roos and one dead wild pig. We made it to Roma safely to the comforts of The Overlander Motel.

    Roma is a town renowned for Arthur Beetson and those gas fields. Hope to do our homework tonight and check out what else is on offer here.    Okumaya devam et

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  • Wandaring Outback
    Gün 1

    Departure...yay!

    14 Temmuz 2023, Avustralya ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    A little behind time (7 hrs)...unlike us really, but truck, pod and tray packed with all the essentials we purchased ourselves or borrowed from our main sponsor Dave from Mindset Health & Fitness and who is also responsible for putting us in peak condition to tackle such an adventure.

    And of course, Pete from Chinderah Motors for ensuring we carried the right spares, tools, and a quick lesson on how to fix/use said spares & tools.

    A quick exit from NSW via the M1, en-route to first stop Toowoomba (sorry we had to skip the Ipswich Mob due to late start), then we struck the first 'scenic phenomenon', the Great Queensland Carpark (one of many new attractions in the Sunshine State), that stretch of M1 from Currumbin to the Ipswich Motorway.

    Late arrival at Toowoomba, too late for dinner with family, so we found Hook'd at Rangeville for Fish (NZ Hoki - all about Jen) & Chips...yummy. Then we went to Jess, Josh & Jasper for catch-up at long last, and stay-over. Special thanks to 'Little Mate' for giving up his bed for us xx. Grandma cuddled Slothie all night, not Grandpa...lol.

    A special treat prepared by Grandma. A real Pavlova (from a plastic egg - yes, not a typo) was scoffed down for the special occasion.    Okumaya devam et

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